From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 26 13:53:56 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04F6116A418 for ; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:53:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hg@queue.to) Received: from pickle.queue.to (pickle.queue.to [71.180.69.18]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97A8C13C46C for ; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:53:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hg@queue.to) Received: (qmail 78280 invoked from network); 26 Jul 2007 09:53:54 -0400 Received: from cally.queue.to (172.16.0.6) by pickle.queue.to with ESMTP; 26 Jul 2007 09:53:54 -0400 Message-ID: <46A8A771.1030401@queue.to> Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 09:53:53 -0400 From: Howard Goldstein User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 (X11/20070720) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: koitsu@freebsd.org References: <46A4E8FA.6010403@queue.to> <46A7B3FB.7010504@queue.to> <46A7B7AF.6080308@samsco.org> <46A7BF8C.5020909@queue.to> <46A7F2C2.2090009@samsco.org> <20070726060538.GA70793@eos.sc1.parodius.com> In-Reply-To: <20070726060538.GA70793@eos.sc1.parodius.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [resolved, naively] Re: geom vs ich through ar device - X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:53:56 -0000 Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 07:02:58PM -0600, Scott Long wrote: >> You should be able to sustain at least 70MB/s on a single modern drive >> with SATA-1 or SATA-2. If you're not getting that then something in the >> driver or the application is getting in the way. Even with the, um, >> "problems" that SiI controllers are famous for, you should be able to >> sustain a decent data rate on a single drive. > > Informative thread! Agreed. A snarky attaboy is due to Ultra Products for their part in all of this starting when they shipped a case+PS with one of the 5 four pin molex power connectors installed backwards at the factory which let the magic smoke out of my original RAID array and having the new drives arrive from Ultra (after much kicking and screaming on their part, and 6 months later arrrrgh) incited me to ask the question. (As an aside for consumer grade drive buyers that some of us myself appear to be including myself, the WDCs do not have any overvoltage protection and WD claims not to sell controller boards for their caviars, while Maxtor does have some sort of OVP that sacrifices itself and shorts the overvoltage rail enough to shut down a 400W power supply but saves the drive) > Results: > > [root@icarus ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/backup/ddtest bs=1m count=1000 > 1048576000 bytes transferred in 16.249101 secs (64531324 bytes/sec) > > [root@icarus ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/home/ddtest bs=1m count=1000 > 1048576000 bytes transferred in 23.940996 secs (43798345 bytes/sec) > > [root@icarus ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/storage/ddtest bs=1m count=1000 > 1048576000 bytes transferred in 14.729852 secs (71187137 bytes/sec) Very interesting! Your /backup and /storage that have WD5000AAKS on SATAII are roughly comparable to my 7200RPM WD3200AAKS on SATAI. Do you think we've saturated the physical storage mechanism in the drives or are we looking at the drive's controller getting saturated? Thank you for posting your results